Biography of five famous poets

Birth and death date unknown

Little is definitively known about this famous Greek poet who lived before the common era.

Some even question whether the same person wrote both epics credited to Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Some scholars believe he might have left hints about his own life through his descriptions of the blind minstrel character Demodokos in The Odyssey.

Despite these uncertainties, the two epics about the fall of Troy and subsequent events have influenced writers throughout history like J.R.R.

Tolkien and James Joyce.

Biography of five famous poets

The use of vivid similes and metaphors as well as the in media res narrative structure—beginning in the middle of the plot and flashing back to past events—are characteristics of Homer’s writings.

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1803-1882

Originally ordained in the Unitarian Church, Emerson resigned from the clergy after three years.

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